God of Thunder

God of Thunder is an action adventure game developed by Adept Software and published by Software Creations for MS-DOS in 1993. You control Thor who must defeat the minions of Asgard by wielding his mighty hammer, Mjölnir. The game was later published by Impluse Software, and then finally released as freeware by the developer. The game engine is similar to The Legend of Zelda with a screen-based top-down over world and underground passages that used a pseudo side-view platform look. The dialogue in the game is pretty funny.

I encountered God of Thunder on a shareware collection CD (around 1995) and found the game to be quite enjoyable. My cousin and I beat the first episode, but never bought the rest of the game. When I later found that the game had been released as freeware, I played through the other two episodes.